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POLICE are hunting a man believed to be responsible for a three-year campaign of indecent exposure incidents across west Essex and Hertfordshire. Police forces for both counties believe the offences stretching back to summer of 2019 are linked. There have now been around 30 similar…
PURFORD Green Primary school has achieved the School Mental Health Award which is delivered by the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools. Purford Green School were awarded a Silver standard for its effective mental health and wellbeing provision. Purford Green provides a…
EARLIER this week, Cllr Eddie Johnson (Great Parndon and Harlow South East) was elected Chairman of Essex County Council. It is understood that Eddie is the first Chairman of Essex ever from Harlow which is a momentous moment for our town. Eddie is a former…
OLYMPIC kayaking hopeful Ottilie Robinson- Shaw is visiting Purford Green Primary School on the 17th of June 2021 and wanted to send over a personal message. This is part of a fund-raising campaign on behalf of the school. For more details,, click below https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/purfordgreen https://www.youtube.com/embed/rcDN6HBppF8
GEORGE Floyd, a name which has now become synonymous with police violence in America, was an African American man who died at the hands of police in Minneapolis on 25th May 2020. One year later on Tuesday anti-racists across the country participated in vigils and…
EXPANSION plans for Stansted Airport have been approved by the Planning Inspectorate after an appeal. Uttlesford District Council last year rejected proposals to increase the Essex airport’s passenger cap to 43 million a year. But it was against the advice of officers who recommended approval…
IPSEN Ltd., in partnership with Prostate Cancer Research and Tackle Prostate Cancer, is launching a new campaign, ‘Let’s Talk About the Hard Things’ to break down the taboos surrounding the side effects of prostate cancer treatment and encourage men to talk about their experiences with…
Update; Alice Smith has been found. ======= ESSEX Police are appealing for information to help find Alice Smith, 35, who is missing from Harlow. Alice, who goes by the name Tina, was reported missing on 22 May but hasn’t been since 17 May. She is…
HARLOW Chorus has appealed to their local MP after the government told them that they still can’t meeting indoors. The chorus, which meets at St John’s Arc in Old Harlow, resumed on Monday May 17th in accordance with the loosening of lockdown measures. But a…
A LAW student from Harlow is top of the class after scooping a £70,000 cash-and-car prize thanks to online competitions company BOTB. Nadeem Qureshi, 24, was studying at home when BOTB’s Christian Williams turned up at his family home in Harlow to tell him he’d…
OVER 50 years since the release of Rod’s first album, Some Guys Have All The Luck – The Rod Stewart Story is back in theatres with a brand new show, bringing to the stage a fantastic live concert celebration of one of rock music’s most successful artistes…
PEOPLE aged 30 and 31 in England are being invited to book to have their first dose of Covid vaccine. The NHS is urging these million or so to take up the offer of a jab at one of the 1,600 available locations, including mosques,…
A CHURCH Langley man has been charged with the theft of six bottle of Prosecco from the local supermarket. Leon Oxenham, aged 31, of Malkin Drive, Church Langley was charged with the following. On May 3rd, 2021, stole a box of Budweiser and a box…
PUPILS at Roydon Primary Academy, in Roydon, took part in a sponsored readathon to top up their reading corners. Arranged by the school’s PTA FORSA, the event saw children raise a total of £1,500. The amount was topped up by Usborne Books to a value…
A TEENAGE boy sent to a youth detention centre after pleading guilty to stabbing a taxi driver in Harlow has gone missing. The sixteen-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons pleaded guilty to the following at Chelmsford Magistrates court. On January 9th at…
